The attempted shooting of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has shown how easy it is to obtain weapons on the informal market.
The problem affects the entire region, where 60 million guns are in the hands of civilians, with Brazil and Mexico being the most heavily armed countries.
According to the Argentine press, the young man who wanted to shoot Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had obtained the gun illegally in Villa del Parque (northwest of Buenos Aires), the old neighborhood where 35-year-old Fernando Sabag Montiel lived with his parents.
The case revived the controversy over . . .
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